Walt Whitman may have rightly claimed that his poetry contains multitudes, but Emily Dickinson can stake an equally valid claim to being America's greatest poet.

She is also the hardest one to know. Harold Bloom once wrote that no poet "seems so separate from us as Dickinson," adding that "we have no accurate approaches to her." | Oct. 20, 2013»Read Full Article

Now 17 years old, Bryce Hamlin of West Bend holds the poster he made for Miley Cyrus’ Bradley Center concert in 2008 when he was 11 that proclaimed he was the future husband of Cyrus’ alter ego Hannah Montana.

When he was just 9 years old, Bryce Hamlin knew he'd met his future wife.

Hank the Brewers dog has a forever home, but he still goes on sleepovers now and again, according to Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Brewers reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

On Thursday, the team pooch went home with Tom Gorzelanny, a relief pitcher recovering from off-season shoulder surgery. Gorzelanny has an infant son and a son, Gavin, who is a little older. | March 7, 2014»Read Full Article(12)

That happened, but while in Austin, the Madison band also met Christian Greene with Onto Entertainment, who would become its manager. Before the year was done, Greene got PHOX on the Lollapalooza lineup in Chicago and booked an opening gig for the Lumineers at the iTunes Festival in London. | March 7, 2014»Read Full Article

The Times Cinema, the Art Deco-era moviehouse in Washington Heights, hopes to begin serving panini, pizza and other foods by June.

John Brannan, the director of operations for the Neighborhood Theater Group, said a basic kitchen would be added in the small building adjacent to the east side of the Times, 5906 W. Vliet St. That building previously housed offices. | March 7, 2014»Read Full Blog Post(1)

One of the two narrators of "All Our Names," Dinaw Mengestu's third novel, is a twentysomething Ethiopian man born with 13 names, reflecting his family's rich history. As he is now rootless and that history is largely irrelevant, we never learn any of them; among his many aliases, the one he uses most is Isaac.

The second narrator, a very rooted 30-year-old social worker in a "semi-rural Midwestern town" — located somewhere between Chicago and St. Louis and dubbed Laurel — is an unmarried white woman named Helen; she still lives with her mother and has never traveled farther than St. Louis. | March 7, 2014»Read Full Article

On Fridays I'm posting my thoughts on Lou Reed's solo albums, one album at a time in chronological order of release.

Released in 1984, "New Sensations" was Lou Reed's peppiest album since "Coney Island Baby," and very much a pop-rock album, too. It's so upbeat in spots a Reed fan is tempted to wonder what happened to Lou. | March 7, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

College basketball fans will enjoy NCAA Tournament games March 20 and 22 at the BMO Harris Bradley Center, especially if the highly ranked Wisconsin Badgers land here. But local book lovers can experience their own March Madness this month through a lineup of visiting authors with a particularly strong appeal to young-adult readers.

Here are some of the month's highlights, in chronological order of appearance: | March 7, 2014»Read Full Article

The scenario makes perfect sense for Present Music: Take Stravinsky's classic "A Soldier's Tale," written nearly 100 years ago but still forbiddingly modern in the minds of too many concertgoers. (Sometimes it is performed with narration and dancers, sometimes without.) Add in "Histories," written two years ago to complement the Stravinsky by Sleeping Giant, a Brooklyn-based collective of six young composers. | March 7, 2014»Read Full Article

As if an Oscar for writing the screenplay for "12 Years a Slave" and an upcoming ABC series, "American Crime," isn't enough, Mequon native John Ridley also wrote and directed "All Is By My Side," a biopic of the guitarist just prior to his becoming a superstar.

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The Friends of MADACC hold their first Soiree for Strays from 6 to 11 p.m. Friday at Hot Water Wherehouse, 818 S. Water St. The Mardi Gras-themed event, raising money for the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission, boasts drinks, hors d'oeuvres, silent and live auctions — and, as you might expect, adoptable dogs. Tickets are $70 per person (hey, it's a benefit to help animals). | March 7, 2014»Read Full Article

Country star Jennifer Nettles talked to the Journal Sentinel about her favorite music and other topics, ahead of appearance at the Riverside Theater. Associated Press photo by Julie Jacobson.| March 7, 2014»Read Full Blog Post(1)